Privacy Policy

W.M. Barr respects your right to privacy. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information. This policy also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.

Information Collection

W.M. Barr will collect personally identifiable information (such as name, title, company name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) that you voluntarily provide through our web site or e-mail correspondence. We will collect general information (such as the type of browser you use, the files you request, and the domain name and country from which you request information) to improve our web site and better meet your needs.

We may passively collect information that is automatically sent to us by your web browser or your Internet service provider. This information typically includes your domain name, your user name, and your numerical IP address. The amount of information sent by your web browser depends on its settings. Please refer to your browser if you want to learn what information it sends. We use this type of information to see which web pages you visit at our web site, which web site you visited before coming to our web site, and where you go after you leave our web site. We can then develop statistics that help us understand how our visitors use our web site and how we can improve it.

We may actively obtain information about you by installing a marker on your computer commonly called a "cookie." Cookies enable us to know you by a computer-generated, unique identifier. By providing you with a unique cookie, we are able to create a database of your previous choices and preferences, and in situations where these choices or preferences need to be collected again; they can be supplied by us automatically, saving you time and effort. For example, after you purchase a product once, if you need to purchase it again, your previous selections for color or other features will have been retained, and can be reentered more quickly. Your computer may be specially configured to reject cookies; please refer to your browser for more information. Many W.M. Barr web sites will allow you to visit without accepting cookies, but some features of our web sites may not work properly if you choose to reject cookies.

Use of Information

The information will be used by W.M. Barr to respond to your inquiries, supply you with requested information on W.M. Barr products and services or track orders you place with W.M. Barr, and to help us improve the products and services we provide. In addition, authorized third parties may be utilized by W.M. Barr to collect, track and process such information. If you have submitted personal information to W.M. Barr electronically and would like it removed or modified, please contact us at 800-398-3892. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. It may be necessary, if required by law or if pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations, to release your personally identifiable information. Although W.M. Barr has taken reasonable and prudent measures to protect its computer systems from unauthorized third parties, W.M. Barr is not responsible for unauthorized use by such third parties of your personally identifiable information.

W.M. Barr may use any of the information gathered at this web site (other than credit information) for any legal purpose. We may analyze personal information for historical, statistical or scientific purposes, or we may store the personal information for your convenience should you return to this web site in the future. In the course of any of these activities, we may transmit any of the information we have collected to another country or share it with W.M. Barr affiliates or third parties including contractors, dealers, distributors and retailers.

We may also use your personal information to investigate security breaches or cooperate with government authorities pursuant to a legal matter. Personal information collected online may also be combined with information you have provided to W.M. Barr through other sources such as product registrations, call centers, or publicly such as at trade shows or seminars.

In addition, we may have collected similar information from you in the past, before our Privacy Policy took effect. By using this web site you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. By agreeing to the terms of this privacy policy, you are consenting to our continued use of previously collected information under the terms of this privacy policy.

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